Improvement in thill-couplings



E. uuAlNTANcE & R. n. HALE.

TMll-Couplings. No.15'l053, Patented Mayl9,l874.

Y. ATToaNEs.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICEo ELI QUAINTANCE AND REMUS D. HALE, OFTRANSITVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THlLL-COUPLINGS.

SpecificationV forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,053, dated May 19,1874; application led i .i March 14, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELI QUAlNTANcE and REMUS D. HALE, of Transitville,in the countjT of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Tongue and Thill Coupling, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The invention consists in a peculiar inode of supporting the shafts sothat the end projection of the plates shall enter and be embedded in therubber spring, and also in a novel mode of holding the rubber by atongue projecting from the cross-bar of axle-clip.

ln the accompanying drawing,Figure l represents a vertical section oftheaxle and coupling wit-h the tongue attached, the section being on theline x x of Fig. 2. Fig. is a top or plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the axle; B B, the clips around the axle, which are formed with twojaws, C U,

` each, which jaws have holes, which receive the coupling T- journals ofthe tongue or shafts. These T- journals are on the iron plates D, whichextend from the ends of the shafts or tongue, as seen. in Fig. 2.

In this example of our invention we showa tongue attached; but it willbe seen that the ordinary thills or shafts may be attached in the sainemanner, thus adapting the device to one-horse as well as to two-horsevehicles.

E represents the T-journal pin, the ends of which, F, form the journalsin the jaws C C. One jaw of each pair is slotted from the top to thejournal-hole, as seen at Gr Gr. The

plates D D, when the tongue or shafts are turned to an upright position,will pass through the slots and allow the tongue or shafts to bedetached. Between the jaws and back of the journalpins I place pieces ofindia-rubber, H. These pieces of rubber are for the purpose of jnfeventing rattling, and are held in place by means of tongues I I ofthe clip-bars and the narrow ribs J J on the back side of the T- journalpins E. Then the tongue or shafts are in use, or in the position seen iuthe drawing, it is impossible for them to become de tached. rlheconnection is strong and durable, and the vehicle runs without rattlingor noise occasioned bj' the coupling. B v raising them to an uprightposition, as before stated, they are disconnected in a moment, and maybe packed away in any convenient place.

The advantages of this arrangement are many, and must be obvious to all.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- AH, in the manner shown and described.

ELI QUAINTANCE. REMUS l D. HALE. Witnesses:

JosEPH A. CLINE, JOHN W. PATTERsoN.

